In the newsletter last week I talked about some recent events, including Tools of Change. If you haven’t heard of it before, it’s a conference about digital publishing that pulls in some pretty big names. O’Reilly Media was nice enough to put the talks from the conference online, and some of them are worth checking out.

Some of these are a bit slow, but you generally can forget about the video and just listen to the audio while you are doing something else. If you’re not in the publishing industry not all the topics might appeal to you, but pretty much everyone is interested in digital reading and the future of content, and the talks cover these.

A number of other topics are covered, including e-reading platforms and at 19:45 in the Ray Kurweil video there is talk about the singularity. Here Kurzweil really comes alive and things definitely pickup. It’s pretty cool stuff, not just endless talk about the death of publishing as we know it.